{"id":287,"date":"2020-05-08T20:51:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=287"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T03:51:03","slug":"books-department-of-mind-blowing-theories-by-tom-gauld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/08\/books-department-of-mind-blowing-theories-by-tom-gauld\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8335.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8335.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8335-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8335-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of Tom Gauld&#8217;s latest book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Department of Mind-Blowing Theories <br><\/em><\/strong>by Tom Gauld<br>published by Drawn + Quarterly<br>2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a charming book of science cartoons, which had previously appeared in <em>New Scientist <\/em>magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/department-mind-blowing-theories\">collected here by the excellent comic\/graphic novel publishers at Drawn + Quarterly<\/a>.  They are subtle, funny, brainy cartoons with really fantastic contraptions, many explosions, heartless thesis committees, and at least one appearance of Cthulhu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is for you if: you wish the text message &#8220;LOL!&#8221; really stood for &#8220;Let&#8217;s Observe Lobsters!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Speaking of LOL, I did laugh out loud at the bear cave strip, and several others.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want all of the contraptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauldpublished by Drawn + Quarterly2020 This is a charming book of science cartoons, which had previously appeared in New Scientist magazine, collected here by the excellent comic\/graphic novel publishers at Drawn + Quarterly. They are subtle, funny, brainy cartoons with really fantastic contraptions, many explosions, heartless thesis committees, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/08\/books-department-of-mind-blowing-theories-by-tom-gauld\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books: Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}